Kay Glasson Taylor (8 July 1893 – 14 May 1998) was an Australian novelist.

Early life

Katherine "Kay" Glasson was born in Queensland. All of her grandparents were

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; three of them were born in

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. Her younger sister Deirdre Tregarthen was a poet. Kay Glasson attended medical school in Sydney.

Career

Novels by Kay Glasson Taylor include ''Ginger for Pluck'' (published under the pseudonym "Daniel Hamline", for young readers, 1929); ''Pick and the Duffers'' (1930), called "an Australian

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" by more than one reviewer; ''Wards of the Outer March'' (1932), set in "convict days in New South Wales", with a disabled Cornish central character; and ''Bim'' (for young readers; serialized in 1946, published as a book in 1947). Her fiction is still read as a representation of white Australian women's experiences of gender and race in the context of colonialism. ''Pick and the Duffers'' was adapted for an Australian film soon after publication. It was awarded the second prize of £250 in '' The Bulletin's'' novel competition in 1930, beaten by Vance Palmer's ''The Passage''.

Personal life

Kay Glasson married Ronald Beresford Taylor in 1916. They had three children (Dorothy, Ian, and Desmond) and lived at Murilla South,

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, on a ranch where they bred

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. Kay Glasson Taylor was widowed in 1957, and died in 1998, aged 104 years. Her grave is in Brisbane General (Toowong) Cemetery.Ronald Beresford Taylor
Brisbane General (Toowong) Cemetery.

References

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